The Treaty of Verdun

The Three Orders & Peace of God

What does the picture on the next page have to do with the expansion of European

civilization during the High Middle Ages?

European Expansion

1000-1300

What are the most noticeable signs of a transformation toward civilization?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a civilized organization of society?

What are the hallmarks of medieval civilization?

What did Hunt identify was “the most striking feature of the period 1050 to 1150?” (p. 305)

A. The construction of cathedralsB. The consolidation of authority

under monarchsC. The rise of a money economyD. The onset of crusadingE. The development of the Christian

theological notions of transubstantiation and purgatory

Where were communes especially common during the High Middle Ages?

A. Northern FranceB. EnglandC. Northern ItalyD. Scotland

Physical Map of Europe

Moldboard plow

Agricultural Patterns

throughout Europe

c. 1300

The Hanseatic League c. 1300

French Gothic at

St. Chapelle

The Annunciation

Siege of Jerusalem,

1099